Done at last

[alias_sqbr]

I give you my final prompt: a ninja tupperware party



I liked the idea of using the way ninjas made themselves invisible (good disguises) rather than the "traditional" black outfits while still mainly using the western silly ninja stereotype (the idea of combining actual ninjas with tupperware has it's own appeal, but would have required more research :)) Sorry it's a bit scruffy, I drew it on the train in a tiny notebook.

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[out-fox.livejournal.com]

Very cute little ninja hand in the salad container!

I will now sound stupid, but if you drew this on the train, is your stuff mainly hand drawn + colour fills on Photoshop? I'm still all pencil & paint - so I can never gauge how the colour & fills are done on comics..unless it's a really obvious brush.

[alias_sqbr]

mainly hand drawn + colour fills on Photoshop

That's it exactly. Apart from the 3D ducks and pencil sketches that's how all of these were done. I've never had any luck colouring with markers etc, but find inking is a lot quicker and prettier done by hand than with my graphics tablet (though there was a time I did everything but the pencil sketch on the computer)

Photoshop geekery you may not care about (how I do almost all my comics):
Scan in ink drawing
Clean up any splotches, use "levels" to make the whites white and blacks black
Set that layer to "multiply" (whites become invisible)
Colour a layer beneath using the paint bucket
copy that layer, set to "multiply" 60% opacity (everything is darkened), create a mask and blank everything
unmask the shadows using a thick version of the default brush